Women's Rights Quotes - Page 15

• Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.

  Rosika Schwimmer

  War, Men, Rights

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• My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

  Cindy Gallop

  Rights, Issues, Causes

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• As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.

  Zainab Salbi

  Loss, Rights, Speaks Out

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• I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death, marching against the KKK in South Georgia. And I have never stopped marching in protests since. Not ever. I mean, LGBT rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color... I'm your guy. I'm going to be out there marching!

  Pauley Perrette

  Mean, Kids, Rights

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am a woman's rights. I have as much as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that?

  Sojourner Truth

  Men, Rights, Can Do

  Olive Gilbert, Sojourner Truth (1878). “Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Bondswoman of Olden Time: With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"”, p.33, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Change, Powerful, Fear

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• My greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?

  Rosalynn Carter

  Disappointment, Years, White

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• I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.

  Sojourner Truth

  Rights, Years, Ice

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Friday, Destiny, Rights

  Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892

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• I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

  Elayne Boosler

  Funny, Inspiring, Women

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• But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

  Jane Fonda

  Women, Liberation, Whole

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• A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

  Jane Fonda

  Spring, Men, Feminist

  Quoted in Daily Mail (London), 13 Sept. 1989

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• The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Mean, Equality

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• Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.

  Gary L. Francione

  Kings, Gay, Animal

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• The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

  Friedrich Engels

  Social, Claims, Scales

  Friedrich Engels (1942). “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: In the Light of the Researches of Lews H. Morgan”

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  I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Witty, Women

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880”, p.491, Rutgers University Press

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• Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!

  Jennifer Worth

  Mistake, Should Have, Gone

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  In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Badass, Leader, Female

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.182, Knopf

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• Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Gains, Social, Women's Rights

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.167, Knopf

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• The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Extremist, Pens

  "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.

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• ... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Believe, Mean, Rights

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• Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.

  Kumari Jayawardena

  War, Women, Being Single

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• Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

  Qiu Jin

  Country, Men, Two

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• I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Rights, Needs, Slave

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.15

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• So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead without woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.

  Frances Harper

  Women, Moving, Giving

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